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Takes Quotes by Robert Frost
- Style is less the man than the way a man takes himself.
- The style is the man. Rather say the style is the way the man takes himself; and to be at all charming or even bearable,…
- It takes all sorts of in and outdoor schooling To get adapted to my kind of fooling.
- A true sonnet goes eight lines and then takes a turn for better or worse and goes six or eight lines more.
- Never discuss the poem you contemplate writing. It's like turning on the outside spigot. It takes all the pressure off the upstairs bathroom.
- A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
- A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.
- Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it…
- Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.
- He thought that I was after him for a feather--- The white one in his tail: like one who takes everything said as personal to…
- You've got to love what's lovable, and hate what's hateable. It takes brains to see the difference.
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